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Albatross wrote:Yeah... I seem to recall a Guardian article, that MGS posted, shrieking about the gov't selling off our forests. It was nonsense. I maintain my position.

It has a ridiculous amount of left-wing bias.

I haven't sat down and read a copy in maybe three years, so it might have gotten worse. There was always a threat that it'd slide into telling the sandal wearers what they wanted to hear.

sebster wrote:

Albatross wrote:Yeah... I seem to recall a Guardian article, that MGS posted, shrieking about the gov't selling off our forests. It was nonsense. I maintain my position.

It has a ridiculous amount of left-wing bias.

I haven't sat down and read a copy in maybe three years, so it might have gotten worse. There was always a threat that it'd slide into telling the sandal wearers what they wanted to hear.

Well, yeah - the 'forest sell-off' was a prime example. It was intentionally misleading in that it neglected to mention that more than 80% of Forestry Commission forest was already in private hands, and that no decision had even been made on the matter, as it was just a consultation.

Also, Polly Toynbee writing about how she will leave the UK now that the Tories are in power (which they aren't, technically...). Brilliant.

Thoughtful and considered analysis has led me to two possible conclusions :

A. She doesn't actually exist and her entire journalistic output is either a satire or piece of performance art, that one day will be revealed and we will marvel at its majesty.

or

B. She is in fact some form of gestalt entity, karmic empowered and created as a form of balance to the Jeremy Kyle show.

Albatross wrote:I haven't sat down and read a copy in maybe three years, so it might have gotten worse. There was always a threat that it'd slide into telling the sandal wearers what they wanted to hear.

Well, yeah - the 'forest sell-off' was a prime example. It was intentionally misleading in that it neglected to mention that more than 80% of Forestry Commission forest was already in private hands, and that no decision had even been made on the matter, as it was just a consultation.

Also, Polly Toynbee writing about how she will leave the UK now that the Tories are in power (which they aren't, technically...). Brilliant.